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Neurosurgery in a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after pituitary derived growth hormone therapy in childhood.

The case of a young man who had previously received pituitary derived growth hormone for treatment of radiation induced growth hormone deficiency is reported. He underwent neurosurgery for presumed recurrence of a posterior fossa tumour but was subsequently shown to have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, c...

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Main Authors: Holmes, S J, Ironside, J W, Shalet, S M
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1996
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1073860/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8609514
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